As well as plenty of their own.
‘Experts tracking the rise of far-right terrorism say extremism has been growing in New Zealand and the warning signs of an attack have been apparent.
“For a long time [New Zealand] has assumed that this extremism is not here, but it is,” said Massey University Centre for Defence and Security Studies counter-terrorism expert Dr John Battersby.
Distance was no protection from from the rise of global extremism, with the flourishing of the right in Europe, and US President Donald Trump and the alt-right in America emboldening potential terrorists, he said.
New Zealand’s relaxed attitude towards gun ownership was also a major issue, with the gunman at Christchurch’s Deans Ave mosque carrying a horrific number of weapons, Battersby said.’
Battersby used to be (perhaps still is for all I know) Sergeant Battersby of the NZ police And the NZ Police Association is strongly in favour of ever more gun control, to the point where the union has even advocated taking guns out of the hands of “civilians”. (Last time I looked, police were civilians too)
Massey University is home to perhaps the greatest concentration of leftist academics and activists you’ll find anywhere, so of course they’e the go-to source for the socialist media which happily repeats their distorted and sometime flat-out lying views.
Oh, and while we’re at it, NZ does not have a “relaxed attitude” to gun ownership, far from it. The screening and qualification process to obtain a licence is obviously very effective, since less than 1% of firearms crimes are committed by licensed owners. That figure might have been “adjusted” by the anti-gun zealots recently, of course.
See: ‘Dishonest Academia’
And
‘Another lie about gun crime’
And
Firearm murders in New Zealand